400 ODI dismissals for MS Dhoni: tracing the landmark

India's limited-overs wicketkeeper-batsman MS Dhoni joined the illustrious list of men who have affected 400 dismissals or more behind the stumps in ODI cricket when he stumped South Africa's stand-in captain Aiden Markram off Kuldeep Yadav at Cape Town in the third ODI between the sides yesterday. Dhoni joined an elite list of glovemen to have reached the feat, accompanying former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara, Adam Gilchrist of Australia and South Africa's Mark Boucher in the process.

Sportskeeda looks back at his landmark ODI dismissals, beginning from number 1, and moving to dismissals number 100, 200, 300 and 400.

#1 Nafis Iqbal: Dhaka, 2004

Brief Scores: Bangladesh 229/9 in 50 overs (Ahmed 67, Mortaza 31*; Agarkar 2/31) beat India 214 in 47.5 overs (Sriram 57, Kaif 49; Baisya 2/35) by 15 runs

Dhoni's first ODI scalp came in his second game, when he caught Bangladesh opener Nafis Iqbal off Ajit Agarkar at Dhaka. Bangladesh had posted a modest 229 in the second match of the series after a close encounter in the first, which the visitors had won by 11 runs. In fact, that would turn out to be the Ranchi native's first notable contribution in the series following his run out off the first ball he faced on ODI debut in the previous game.

When his chance to bat arrived, Dhoni again departed cheaply with a score of 12 as surprisingly, India failed to chase down the easy target of 230, as the hosts levelled the series with match to play, astonishing the cricketing world with a rare win over a fairly strong India unit, though it had Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid missing from its line-up.

#100 Owais Shah: Headingley, 2007

Dhoni's 100th dismissal came on the tour of England in 2007 at Headingley, where he affected 6 of them

Brief Scores: India 324/6 in 50 overs (Yuvraj 72, Tendulkar 71; Collingwood 1/48) beat England 242/8 in 39 overs (Collingwood 91*, Prior 46; Ganguly 2/26) by 38 runs (D/L method)

Three years after having established himself as the country's best wicketkeeper-batsman, Dhoni reached the triple-figure mark on the tour of England in 2007. In the fifth ODI of the series at Headingley, Dhoni affected as many as six dismissals behind the stumps – still his personal best as well as the ODI record for an Indian wicket-keeper. He entered the game with 95 dismissals to his credit but left with 101, his hundredth being England's number six Owais Shah.

Off-spinner Ramesh Powar spun Shah out in his very first over of the match, as the latter assumed the ball would turn but only a thin edge off one that did not as Dhoni's fifth catch of the match took him to a hundred overall in the format.

In the end, India won a rain-affected match comfortably via the D/L method to strike back in the seven-match series which eventually ended 4-3 in England's favour.

#200 Sanath Jayasuriya: Rajkot, 2009

In a match where he smashed 72 from number three, Dhoni also stumped Sanath Jayasuriya for his 300th dismissal

Brief Scores: India 414/7 in 50 overs (Sehwag 146, Dhoni 72; Welegedara 2/63) beat Sri Lanka 411/8 in 50 overs (Dilshan 160, Sangakkara 90; Harbhajan 2/58) by 3 runs

It took Dhoni only two more years to jump from 100 to 200 when in the first ODI on Sri Lanka's tour to India in 2009, he nabbed twin stumpings to finish with exactly two hundred ODI dismissals. In a thriller of an ODI at Rajkot, Dhoni, now the captain of the side across all formats, first smashed 72 off only 53 balls batting at number three to help India post 414/7 after Virender Sehwag's flying 146.

Sri Lanka threatened to overhaul the target, but fell only three short, finishing on 411/8 as Tillakaratne Dilshan hit 160.

Dhoni's 200th victim was the big Sanath Jayasuriya, who paid the price for dancing down the track too early to a Harbhajan Singh off-spinner, which was bowled with flight yet was short and flat in line. The ball found its way to Dhoni behind, who then calmly dislodged the bails to walk away with his second stumping following that of Upul Tharanga.

#300 Ross Taylor: Napier, 2014

At Napier in 2014, Dhoni caught Ross Taylor off Mohammad Shami to complete 300 ODI dismissals

Brief Scores: New Zealand 292/7 in 50 overs (Williamson 71, Anderson 58*; Shami 4/55) beat India 268 in 48.4 overs (Kohli 123, Dhoni 40; McCleneghan 4/68) by 24 runs

Though India's tour to New Zealand in 2014 remained winless for them despite coming close to a victory on numerous occasions, Dhoni achieved his 300th dismissal on the first match of the tour. New Zealand looked determined to post a massive total batting first with Ross Taylor and captain Brendon McCullum at the crease. A steady Taylor was removed in the first ODI at Napier when Mohammad Shami forced the experienced middle-order batsman into poking one outside off.

Taylor edged straight to Dhoni behind, who bagged it with ease; and though his second catch of the match was that of another big-hitter McCullum, India failed to chase down 293. For the first time in ODIs, Virat Kohli's century in a run chase – 123 off 111 balls – saw India come second. Dhoni was the next highest scorer with 40 but once he departed after a partnership of 95 with Kohli, India fell apart to lose by 24 runs.

#400 Aiden Markram: Cape Town, 2018

Aiden Markram failed to read one from chinaman Kuldeep Yadav to become Dhoni's 400th ODI victim

Brief Scores: India 303/6 in 50 overs (Kohli 160*, Dhawan 76; Duminy 2/60) beat South Africa 179 in 40 overs (Duminy 51; Kuldeep 4/23, Chahal 4/46) by 124 runs

Chinaman Kuldeep Yadav was in operation with South Africa's substitute skipper Aiden Markram on strike. Alongside JP Duminy, the youngster had stitched 78 for the second wicket after Hashim Amla was sent back early.

The hosts were chasing 304 to try and comeback in the series whose first two matches they had already host. Kuldeep flighted one beautifully which seemed to move away from the right-hander as Markram failed to read go fully forward to the delivery.

Dhoni finished off yet another stumping in his ODI career – he now sits at 106, a world record with Kumar Sangakkara's 99 coming next – and touched 400 ODI dismissals in his 315th one-day match.

India won the game with the huge margin of 124 runs courtesy of captain Virat Kohli's brave 160* in a total of 303/6 and took a 3-0 lead with as many matches to play in the series.